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How much would each researcher receive if competitive government research funding
were distributed equally among researchers?
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Vaesen K
; Katzav J
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2017[]; 12
(9
): e0183967
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Scientists are increasingly dissatisfied with funding systems that rely on peer
assessment and, accordingly, have suggested several proposals for reform. One of
these proposals is to distribute available funds equally among all qualified
researchers, with no interference from peer review. Despite its numerous
benefits, such egalitarian sharing faces the objection, among others, that it
would lead to an unacceptable dilution of resources. The aim of the present paper
is to assess this particular objection. We estimate (for the Netherlands, the
U.S. and the U.K.) how much researchers would receive were they to get an equal
share of the government budgets that are currently allocated through competitive
peer assessment. For the Netherlands, we furthermore estimate what researchers
would receive were we to differentiate between researchers working in low-cost,
intermediate-cost and high-cost disciplines. Given these estimates, we then
determine what researchers could afford in terms of PhD students, Postdocs,
travel and equipment. According to our results, researchers could, on average,
maintain current PhD student and Postdoc employment levels, and still have at
their disposal a moderate (the U.K.) to considerable (the Netherlands, U.S.)
budget for travel and equipment. This suggests that the worry that egalitarian
sharing leads to unacceptable dilution of resources is unjustified. Indeed, our
results strongly suggest that there is room for far more egalitarian distribution
of funds than happens in the highly competitive funding schemes so prevalent
today.